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Friday, 21 November 2014

Lollipop stopped the getRecentTasks API from working. Fortunately, they made a replacement this time as detailed here. It's not exactly the same, and it's a little bit more work/code to figure out the most recent app. Anyway, it works again! Hooray!

Tuesday, 18 November 2014

So it appears that Android's audio APIs have gone completely wonky in Lollipop. Vibrate mode seems to be basically dead... it must now be up to individual apps as to whether they want to vibrate or not, rather than having a system-level override/setting for apps to check. And silent mode has the bug discussed in the previous post.

Anyhew, this is a temporary(?) fix that no longer uses the Ringer Mode API to set the device to Silent. Lollipop treats that as 'priority notifications mode'. Instead, Llama now just sets the volume levels to zero.

Monday, 17 November 2014

Another Android update, another load of stuff that behaves weird or doesn't work any more. These aren't fixed yet, and probably can't be fixed until someone figures out a workaround or another hack.

When changing screen lock password to blank, Lollipop will still show you the numeric keypad and you need to press enter. This was always a bit of a hack, but it's probably an oversight that it doesn't show the slide lock... the Android security settings screen thinks it is in slide lock mode, but the lock screen doesn't.

Llama's notification appears on the lockscreen. You can set Llama to 'on going notification no icon', which hides it from the lock screen, but also hides the icon which you might be using to see what profile is active. It'd be nice if notifications had a flag saying "this really isn't exciting enough to appear on a lock screen, but should still show an icon".

Silent profiles put the device in priority notification mode, but setting the profile back to normal does not change the notification priority mode. This one appears to be a bug.

I'll keep my eye on things, but don't expect a fix any time soon. I'm not sure I want to put Lollipop on my main device yet... I've grown far too attached to Xposed modules, and the changes in Lollipop don't excite me enough to give those up!

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Due to some recent changes in the Play Store’s policies Llama no longer has a donation app, nor in-app purchases.

Instead, if you like Llama you should donate to some charities. Even if you don’t like Llama you should donate to charity too. It gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling inside!

Thanks for all the support over the last four years. I still plan to work on Llama, but as you may have noticed, the updates have been much less frequent recently. Hopefully nothing in Android L breaks stuff catastrophically, but I’m sure Google will do their usual removal of useful device-control APIs (*cough* airplane mode)

Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Not much exciting in this release. Llama's ageing UI doesn't play nice with some phones that have no physical menu button, and don't show the legacy on-screen menu button. This version puts the items that are in the menu-button menu into the Llama button's list of menu items.

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

I've added a quick and simple feature to Llama. You can now pop up toast messages (those are the grey boxes towards the bottom of the screen) as part of events. You may want to use these to debug your events or maybe as a quick and simple reminder to do something. You can also get them to show the values of Llama variables. This will be useful if you use the toggle, increment or decrement variable actions. To show a variable surround it by two hashes. e.g. The value is ##blah##

Llama.1.2014.02.05.2110

Added Toast action so you can show messages, including Llama variables